I don’t know why I was never even the slightest intrigued to watc Doctor Who earlier, because bloody hell this series is absolutely brilliant! 13 episodes in two days, that’s saying a lot on its own, isn’t it. This is just the kind of fantasy/sci-fi I needed after Merlin and continuing with the British accent… I just can’t get enough of it! I finished watching the last episode of the first season a couple of minutes ago and I can’t wait to start the second season. I’m not sure if I’m going to miss Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor, even though he was wonderful and fantastic (very funny too), I’m rather interested in seeing how David Tennant will do his job. :) I’m completely hooked.

Generally, all BBC dramas are well produced and Merlin doesn’t deviate from this a single bit. Sometimes the special effects seemed a tad amateurish but it actually added something to the series rather than diminished its worth. Truth be told, (some of) the actors being British and hearing the lovely British accent was all it took for me to take a liking on this series. At first the storyline seemed a bit feeble but it got better and better after each episode and the way Merlin and Arthur bonded, even though it happened very quickly and not much emphasis was put on its taking place, was really delightful. Many of the Arthurian legends were featured in the series, sometimes I got a feeling a bit too many of them, considering the episodes were supposed to concentrate on the young Merlin, before he became the greatest warlock of his time. In the series, we get to see glimpses of Lancelot, Excalibur, Avalon… At times it felt all a bit too overwhelming. Another thing that mostly just amuses me, is how the people and names don’t add up to the actual legends. Take Guinevere for example; she was the wife of Arthur, not a servant (like she is in the TV series). Or Lady Morgana; Morgan le Fay – a sorceress and an opponent to both Arthur and Guinevere. In the series it almost feels like she holds some kind of feelings for Arthur. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen in the second season. :) Can’t wait!

Eric Eric Eric ♥ No but really, I don’t think my opinion of a TV series has changed as much with any other as it did with True Blood. My feelings went from excited and curious to puzzled, disappointed, interested and the last episode left me craving for more. (if for nothing else, then for Eric ♥ He’s my biggest crush for a while, though the way he’s described never ceases to amuse me: a 1000 year old Viking vampire, I mean… amusing much?)

Also, I don’t think I’ve ever disliked the main characters as much as I resented Sookie and Bill. Half the first season I couldn’t stand her and quite frankly I couldn’t understand why such a supreme being (well, in a way) as Bill (the vampire) could fall in love with such a common, uninteresting girl (though true, she’s a telepathist). At times, I couldn’t even stand her. But gradually she grew onto me and in the end, she wasn’t so bad after all. I’m not head over heels with her character, but she and Bill go well together. And Bill, then. He’s just the kind of vampire I wouldn’t want to make acquaintance with. :D Nothing against him, except that he’s boring as hell. Eric is more my style. ♥ (I have got to stop mentioning him!) Oh, and Pam? She is absolutely awesome, such a great character, I wish we would see more of her. She’s Eric’s sidekick. :P

All in all, not a bad first season at all. My hopes took a deep plunge at some point during the season but the last episode was so good and I can’t wait till next summer for the second season! There was enough action to satisfy me, lots of funny scenes (or then it was just my bad sense of humour but I laughed a lot), the only thing that surprised me a bit was how much all the characters had sex. :D With each other or with random people. I can’t remember the episode’s number, but there was one episode that felt like it was filled with nothing but sex. It was… weird.

Still, can’t wait for season two!

Oh my god, David Bowie’s crotch. Perhaps a bit too much of that but other than that, is there anything more attractive than David Bowie as the Goblin King Jareth? I do no think so.

My favourite scene was when Sarah and Jareth were at a masquerade, it was so dreamlike and really, had I been there dancing with him, I would have gladly forgotten everything else. :D Who cares about a baby brother when a gorgeous man is definitely flirting with you? Come on now. And now I have to have ‘As the World Falls Down’ on repeat the whole evening.

Hairspray is one of those films that never fail to make me smile or get me on a better mood. All the music and dancing makes me want to move too, I’d give anything to be able to dance the way they do in the film. Perhaps the storyline isn’t too spectacular but it doesn’t need to be – this film is supposed to make you happy and put a smile on your face. So lovely. ♥

I wasn’t disappointed in Twilight, it proved out to be exactly what I had dreaded (i.e. very bad). I’m rather sure I can still read the book with much joy and delight though, despite this peculiar film.

Ah, where to begin. The casting perhaps which for me was totally off. Kristen Stewart, who played Bella wasn’t much of an actor actually, I thought her acting was rather awkward and forced most of the time (but perhaps that will change once she gets more experience and gets older and stuff). Edward Cullen then… Robert Pattinson. Who is he anyway? I don’t think I could give you a coherent image of the Edward Cullen I had pictured in my head while reading the book(s) but I can tell you he’s nothing like this film-Edward. From the first pictures I saw of this film and its main actors, I knew I wouldn’t like them, but it’s nothing personal. They’re just so different from what I had imagined Bella and Edward to be, for instance. I was very fond of Carlisle though, he was beautiful. ♥

What ticked me even more however, was the awkwardness of the script and the way how so many important things were left unexplained. Surely one can watch Twilight without having read the book but at times it felt too many shortcuts were taken. I didn’t see a true connection between Bella and Edward either, which in the book is the most essential thing, the core of the story itself. If they did bond in the most deepest way, it wasn’t shown in the film, which is a real shame, because their story is a beautiful one (even though a bit too, how should I put it, sappy and perfect perhaps).

I don’t know, I had so many things to say while I was watching this, but now I can’t remember anything. All I can think of is Kristen Stewart’s bad acting and all that lip-biting, at times it almost drove me crazy, and where was all Bella’s notorious clumsiness? If Edward had climbed into a tree with Bella in the book, I’m sure she would have fallen off, it was actually rather hilarious to think about that while watching the tree-climbing scene. :D

All in all, I wouldn’t recommend watching this, especially if you have read the book and felt (too) passionate about it – you’ll only get disappointed. As for others – go ahead if you feel like it, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. The only reason I watched this (even though I knew I wouldn’t like it) was because I’m too curious for my own good and I like to prove myself right. And behold, so I was! :P

Oh my, how I love this film! I saw it in the cinema when it came out and just finished watching it again now and I must say… not many other films can put such a huge smile on my face than this one. It’s just, there are no words to describe how happy this film makes me, really.

Enchanted makes me want to believe in fairytales and storybook endings. The most wonderful moment in the film? When Giselle sings “That’s How You Know”, it’s by far one of the most adorable and funny moments I’ve ever seen on film.

I need to get this on DVD, luckily Christmas is coming soon… ;)

Ehmm. Hollywood should stop making horror altogether. And stick to romantic comedies and mediocre action films which they know how to do. Horror is a difficult genre, it’s getting harder and harder to scare people.

I mean… This could have been even mildly scary, it could have caused tension and it could have made me feel even a bit jumpy. But no. Perhaps I was expecting too much. It was all there, the material to make this a – if not great, then at least – good film.

Everything starts boldly with a line from the Bible and I think “wow, references to Christianity, how cool, since this is a horror flick, maybe it deals with satan?” and yeah. That’s where all the good stuff ends. Those opening lines were actually my favourite part of the film, so you can see what I think of the actual film. :P

What was the idea of this film? Why make such crap, the plot was feeble, character-development next to nothing and in the end everything comes back down to the same old thing: ‘innocent’ (I guess these people had really done something bad, though, but why not let them carry their sins alone) people are chased around by some maniac who has no other way to deal with his antipathies than by torturing and killing people. I mean… what? People are so pathetic.

Hmph, watching this film only made me irritated, why can’t they make decent films anymore, why?

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I’m not completely sure what to think about The Stand. It was epic (6 hours is the longest time I’ve watched one single film – LotR trilogy doesn’t count), it was interesting and I wonder how I always manage to find films that somehow deal with religious stuff (don’t get me wrong, I love films like that even though I’m not the slightest religious) – it’s amazing, really. I didn’t know anything about this film beforehand, I haven’t read the book nor will I ever, Stephen King’s work doesn’t really interest me. Why did I buy this film then? It was on a whim, really, I can’t resist apocalypses apparently. ;)

Concentrating on the film itself, it was… good. Okay, actually. Nothing too spectacular, people were dying left and right and those who survived were divided into two camps. Well, I assume that’s how it’d go if something like that would happen for real. I didn’ care much for the patriotism the film portrayed and the way the two different camps were portrayed so contrary to each other, bad vs. good, darkness vs. light, satan vs. god. And so on.

I found Randall Flagg extremely hilarious though. His humour was awesome when he wasn’t doing his devilish stuff. Not scary at all, definitely not a leader-type, I wonder why all those people followed him… Not sure if that feeling came from the film or if Mr. King had created a rather weak character to begin with. (And really, I don’t even care)

The ending was rather, well, unoriginal. The good inherit the world, a new world in this case, and the will of god was delivered. How very nifty.

That caption in the beginning of this review is from T.S. Elliot, the whole film starts with this poem and now that I think about it, it bears a double-sided allusion to the film. “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” In the beginning, when the virus gets out, most of the mankind die of something that seems like a regular flu – humankind doesn’t go down with a bang but a silent whimper. At the end of the film, however, a new life is born, the first baby of the new world, and her whimper means a new life to the survivors, the righteous ones, and the end for Randall Flagg and his followers (they actually died a bit sooner but lets not get caught in minor details). Oh the pathos!

I can’t say this wasn’t completely worth consuming, as the film did have its funny moments. Unfortunately those were scarce and during most of the film I was just thinking ‘why, why??’ I knew this third film would never live up to the previous two, so I didn’t have my expectations high, and I must admit this third Mummy didn’t surprise me in any way.

Well, I might be a bit biased, seeing as I was totally smitten over Imhotep. :D I swear, he just had the charisma. ;) So, him not being on the third film (well, how could he, after all he was banished twice in the previous two films, it would have been just too much) was definitely a huge minus in my opinion.

It’s not like the plot was that good anyway. True, neither were the previous films’ scripts that good, but at least they were a lot funnier. The acting was rather lame, Brendar Fraser is probably getting old, and they changed Evie, which I didn’t know beforehand so that was a bit of a shock for me. I also expected more from Jet Li, now all I got was an emperor who failed to look vicious. And what’s with all the shape-shifting? Boooring.

I hope they’ll never make another Mummy film again. Seriously, it worked the first two times but not anymore. Spare us, please.